Purpose Council of SA

The role of the Purpose Council is to facilitate, though influencing key decision makers and organisations, the development of an environment where the conditions exist for significant growth of the Purpose Economy in SA.

The catalyst for the establishment of the Purpose Council was to help drive the implementation of the recommendations from the Social Capital Residencies – in particular a more purposeful economy in SA. To date though the Social Capital Residencies we have focused on developing a more purposeful economy in South Australia that is better able to achieve the highest levels of social, cultural and environmental impact and we have sought to do this by:

Breaking down the silos between the business and social innovation ecosystems as well as the entrepreneurship and social enterprise ecosystems.

Supporting and inspiring start-ups, small, medium and large businesses to improve their social, cultural and environmental impact.

Help to bring social innovations to scale by improving the innovation ecosystem’s ability to produce investment ready social businesses, social enterprises and other for purpose businesses.

Changing the systems in South Australia that supports these goals though policy and culture change.

The goals of the Social Capital Residencies and the Purpose Council are broad. The council is focusing their action on the following: